A Recurring Theme

Bounds of The Human Body

Every human being can experience pain and understands how far the body can be pushed before it decides to fight back. Marina constantly tests her own boundaries and those of others until she reaches the point where either her body can no longer withstand or the audience steps in and stops her from going further. We know that if we touch fire it will burn us and if we cut ourselves we will bleed. Bounds of the body is a big idea that all of us experience from childhood into adulthood. We have to define and redefine our own personal boundaries everyday, and we have all tested those bounds as Marina has throughout her career. Marina’s experiments are biological in nature from an outside standpoint, but they also have a mood of pushing mental limits under the surface. Many of her performances require large amounts of mental training to be able to do. Her performances are often times multi-layered, and dabble with the trinity of body, mind, and spirit.